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Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: I mean, do I need a seat with Trump and Zelenski?
Speaker 4: I mean like that, I feel like I'm being asked
Speaker 4: to do something that I'm not.
Speaker 2: Qualified to do. It's a tall, tall task.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've always wondered who, like who writes those?
Speaker 4: And I remember this was years ago.
Speaker 2: I thought that were you? Honest?
Speaker 4: No, No, previous boss who's no longer around, who I
Speaker 4: miss he's he was a great a great boss and
Speaker 4: a good dude. And I hope, I hope he's doing well.
Speaker 4: But Josh, Josh Evert used to be our boss here
Speaker 4: and Josh I don't know why, but for some reason
Speaker 4: I thought he wrote those and I love him, but
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, like these are really corny, Like these,
Speaker 4: There's no way Josh wrote these, but again, like that
Speaker 4: I would. I just assumed because of his position, he
Speaker 4: is in charge of it. And what it turns out
Speaker 4: to be is that like they're they're the same for
Speaker 4: like a lot of like you can customize them, but
Speaker 4: we have a lot of them that are just like
Speaker 4: every market that has a sports show on a sports station,
Speaker 4: they'll throw those in there. And we have some customer,
Speaker 4: you know, some customization, but you know, like the Mookie
Speaker 4: Wilson rookie card, Like I don't know who Mookie Wilson is.
Speaker 4: Like I had somebody ask me one time at might
Speaker 4: have been one of my son's football games, ask me
Speaker 4: about my Mookie Wilson rookie card. I'm like, you have
Speaker 4: the wrong person, Like what the hell, what the hell
Speaker 4: are you talking about? And then they were like, you know,
Speaker 4: like the commercial, and I'm like no, so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: things like that. I just you know, like come on,
Speaker 4: but anyways, let's get it started. Show we Hopefully everybody
Speaker 4: had themselves a good weekend. I know I certainly did.
Speaker 2: I did not like that.
Speaker 4: We had a nice tease for weather on Saturday because
Speaker 4: it was sunny and it looked nice, but it was cold.
Speaker 2: Again, it wasn't freezing, but it was it was.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was like high thirties. And yes, the
Speaker 4: sun can really can help when we have cold temperatures,
Speaker 4: but when the wind is whipping like that, it's just
Speaker 4: it's not good. But you know, we have hit March
Speaker 4: and I'm ready for some warm weather. Also ready for
Speaker 4: ready for March madness. I mean I am, but I'm not.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: We're coming down to the final week here of the
Speaker 4: regular season, which you know, I am excited to know
Speaker 4: that Selection Sunday will be here in a couple of
Speaker 4: weeks and Louisville will be included. That's exciting, but it's
Speaker 4: also kind of bittersweet because you know, once you get
Speaker 4: to the postseason, you win or you go home. Especially,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean really the instead of the tournament
Speaker 4: more than anything. Obviously, if you're not fighting for a
Speaker 4: bid by way of your conference tournament, then you know,
Speaker 4: like louisll could lose the first game whoever they play,
Speaker 4: and it might be a bad loss for them, but
Speaker 4: it wouldn't impact they're.
Speaker 2: Getting in the tournament.
Speaker 4: So you know, I've enjoyed this season so much that
Speaker 4: you know, there is something that doesn't make me sad
Speaker 4: because again, you're in a great spot. Louis's in the
Speaker 4: top fifteen in the AP pole and in the Coach's
Speaker 4: poll again safely in the tournament. But when it gets
Speaker 4: to win or go home, I'm not gonna be sad.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be some real excitement because we love March
Speaker 4: Madness and the NAA Tournament. Everything that comes with it
Speaker 4: around here, and we've been starving for it as Louisville
Speaker 4: fans because man, it's been a while. I mean, you
Speaker 4: haven't made the tournament in six years, you have made
Speaker 4: the second weekend in ten years. So again, I'm excited,
Speaker 4: but also I kind of just wish we could hit
Speaker 4: pause and just enjoy everything that we've got going right now,
Speaker 4: because it's been a lot of fun and when it's over,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be sad, and I hope it doesn't end,
Speaker 4: you know, early, but you just don't know.
Speaker 2: You just don't know.
Speaker 4: So again, we'll talk a lot about what happened with
Speaker 4: Louisville and Pittsburgh sort of where we go from here.
Speaker 4: Kentucky they got it handed to him against Auburn. They
Speaker 4: now know for sure they don't have Jackson Robbinson the
Speaker 4: rest of the way. And I find myself with Kentucky
Speaker 4: in their new era right They've they're just like Louisville.
Speaker 4: They've got a new coach that really had to build
Speaker 4: the team from scratch, and it's been a fun ride
Speaker 4: for them.
Speaker 2: I'm sure.
Speaker 4: I'm sure right now they're not loving the way things
Speaker 4: have played out recently, but you know, they're not losing
Speaker 4: to bad teams, They're still safely in the tournament.
Speaker 2: They still are going to get a really good seed.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't see a scenario where Kentucky doesn't
Speaker 4: end up with at least a four seed. I mean,
Speaker 4: I guess I could be wrong, but when you look
Speaker 4: at all the bracketology, all the numbers out there, and
Speaker 4: really just knowing who it is they've beat along the
Speaker 4: way and who they've lost to, I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: really see how they could get any Kentucky would need
Speaker 4: to lose to LSU too, I think risk not getting
Speaker 4: at least a four seed. So again this year, you know,
Speaker 4: post Caliperi, from my perspective, the Louisville fan, who you know,
Speaker 4: I don't want to see Kentucky win, but I do
Speaker 4: try to be honest and real. That's kind of what
Speaker 4: I think I need to do on this show. I'll
Speaker 4: take my shots when I can, but I also I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna lie to myself for a lot of any
Speaker 4: of you guys. You know, if Kentucky's really good, I'll
Speaker 4: say it. If I think their coach is really good,
Speaker 4: I'll say it. I won't may not like it, but
Speaker 4: it's just the truth. But I find myself this year
Speaker 4: sort of kind of viewing them differently than most because
Speaker 4: you know, I think honestly, they've had it. You know,
Speaker 4: they're nineteen and ten again, They're still going to get
Speaker 4: a really good seat, I would imagine, But you know,
Speaker 4: I think they're in this position more so because of
Speaker 4: their coach than they are their personnel. And I don't
Speaker 4: mean because he's just he's scheming something up that nobody
Speaker 4: else could because he's got that John Wooden basketball IQ.
Speaker 4: I just mean like he's been able to get these
Speaker 4: guys to really live in the moment, not get too
Speaker 4: high and not get too low, and that matters.
Speaker 2: This day and age.
Speaker 4: But I kind of feel like they're, you know, as
Speaker 4: I try to play, you know, from the outside looking
Speaker 4: in I try to play, I guess, you know, psychologists here.
Speaker 4: I think they like their team and they have results
Speaker 4: throughout the season that make them feel I guess justified
Speaker 4: when it comes to being confident in March. But like
Speaker 4: you know, you've also watched your team lose three of
Speaker 4: six ten losses overall, and I'm sure, even if it
Speaker 4: is against good teams, that's probably gonna take its.
Speaker 2: Toll as well.
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Speaker 4: and I'm sure they're not the only one, but I
Speaker 4: know they were the first around here as far as
Speaker 4: gas stations, convenience stores that you could go into and
Speaker 4: you could check out yourself. I know there's others that have,
Speaker 4: you know, added self checkout because you know it's twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five.
Speaker 2: But one thing that I mean, I can't remember the
Speaker 2: last time.
Speaker 4: In fact, I probably in the last five six years
Speaker 4: have not checked out at a place with self checkout
Speaker 4: unless the self checkout lanes were closed. I just even
Speaker 4: if I've got a bunch of things like I just
Speaker 4: I feel like I'll do it quicker. I'll get in,
Speaker 4: i'll get out, I'll get it all taken care of,
Speaker 4: Like when I go to grocery stores to do it,
Speaker 4: rather it be Walmart, Mey or Kroger whatever. Why is
Speaker 4: it that they are so desperate for you to want
Speaker 4: to get cash back?
Speaker 2: Like I always trip up on.
Speaker 4: The gas or not, Because again I was trying to
Speaker 4: give Thornton's a compliment here because they don't ask you
Speaker 4: for cash back. It's a quick I mean you can literally,
Speaker 4: and I'm not kidding you if there's not a line,
Speaker 4: which usually when I go in there's not because you know,
Speaker 4: people aren't getting groceries at the convenience store usually if
Speaker 4: you're doing self checkout, it's a very easy, quick process.
Speaker 4: But like I can walk from the gas pump into Thornton's,
Speaker 4: get two Monster Energy drinks, maybe one of those sausage
Speaker 4: ek and cheese croissant breakfast sandwiches that are so delicious,
Speaker 4: and I can check out. I can walk in and
Speaker 4: walk out, no joke, in less than two minutes. Like
Speaker 4: that's to me, that's awesome. But you know, I guess
Speaker 4: I shouldn't expect it to be that quick when you're
Speaker 4: at a Meyer or a Walmart or Kroger whatever. But
Speaker 4: I always get tripped up on all the prompts they
Speaker 4: you know, I say I've checked out, I hit you know,
Speaker 4: I scan everything, I hit finish, I hit the button
Speaker 4: that says card because I'm gonna use my debit card.
Speaker 4: And usually it's pretty like you either say no, no, no,
Speaker 4: or yes yes yes, just depending upon how they're prompting you,
Speaker 4: how they're asking you questions. But like the cash back,
Speaker 4: I don't ever want cash back, but like, are you
Speaker 4: do you want cash back?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Because they want to charge you seventy five cents? Do
Speaker 4: you want cash back no? Are you sure you want
Speaker 4: cash back?
Speaker 1: Yes? Or no?
Speaker 4: Are you saying you don't want cash back? Are you
Speaker 4: like I don't want cash back?
Speaker 2: Damn it? Like let me leave, so then I'll hit
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: I've tried to tell them I don't want cash back,
Speaker 4: and then somehow along the way I've told them that no,
Speaker 4: I don't agree on like the amount, so then they
Speaker 4: have me start the whole process over.
Speaker 2: Like you should.
Speaker 4: You should it should be a thing, because look, I
Speaker 4: could be wrong. I feel like nine out of ten
Speaker 4: people who use the self checkout at these stores do
Speaker 4: not get cash back, So like we should just be
Speaker 4: we should just know to look for a button to
Speaker 4: hit if we want cash back. Here I am complaining
Speaker 4: about where I was today. I think it was a Meyer.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was Meyer. I went to two different places
Speaker 4: to look for something, and I remember which one actually
Speaker 4: got it out, but it was Meyer. I checked that
Speaker 4: at Meyer and I had to start over because I
Speaker 4: I guess. I told them I didn't want cash back,
Speaker 4: and then they asked me, are you sure you don't
Speaker 4: want cash back? And then I said no, thinking that like, no,
Speaker 4: I don't want cash back, but they try to trip
Speaker 4: you up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so again here, you really really sure you don't
Speaker 2: want cash back? You want to? Or what about? Do
Speaker 2: you want to leave a tip for all the harm people?
Speaker 2: Or do you want to leave a tip for tippy?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't I don't get prompted for that
Speaker 4: at the self checkout, but it is rich to check out.
Speaker 4: I went and got my kids happy meals last night
Speaker 4: for dinner, a great healthy dinner for my children.
Speaker 2: And you know, do you want to round up?
Speaker 4: You're a you're the billion dollar company that is now
Speaker 4: charging way like charge and by the way, like, let's
Speaker 4: be real certain things because of supply and demand, you know,
Speaker 4: and inflation, it's more expensive.
Speaker 2: But it's also a way for everybody to just say, well, hey,
Speaker 2: what are you going to do? Inflation?
Speaker 4: Every they just put make everything more expense and blame
Speaker 4: it on the economy without any real reason that it
Speaker 4: should be more expensive than it is. But like it
Speaker 4: is kind of rich that you want us to us
Speaker 4: around it. Why don't you do it? Why don't you
Speaker 4: spend the day where you round up on all of
Speaker 4: our purchases, Like why wouldn't you do that?
Speaker 2: Like you're the one who can like it. The meal's
Speaker 2: already eight dollars.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean it's almost it's not insulting, but like
Speaker 4: because you're because you're claiming it's for a charity. Like
Speaker 4: and by the way, like if everybody, and I shouldn't
Speaker 4: accuse them of this because I don't know, but like
Speaker 4: if if there's a big and I'm sure enough people
Speaker 4: do it to where there's a big number, do you
Speaker 4: think that McDonald's is out here or whoever it is,
Speaker 4: parading around that their customers are the one they're probably
Speaker 4: they're probably positioning as it look at us. We've we've
Speaker 4: been able to collect this much money, Like it's just
Speaker 4: it irritates me. But we'll move on because I was
Speaker 4: just trying to give Thornton's a shout out for not
Speaker 4: harassing me and spamming me about wanting cash back, and
Speaker 4: the conversation took a took a wide right turn. So anyways, again,
Speaker 4: Coffee and Company, we are Fieldbeth Thornton's Nick Coffee. That's
Speaker 4: me the trivel Chief, mister Rawston Montgomery alongside today and
Speaker 4: I'll just I'll just start right away with Louisville because
Speaker 4: I mean, Chucky Hebird has continued to show us that
Speaker 4: he's a really, really special player, like we all know that.
Speaker 4: But the six consecutive made threes in the first half
Speaker 4: the other night, I don't think there's anything comparable in
Speaker 4: Louisville basketball history to that. Now, again, it wasn't, it wasn't,
Speaker 4: you know, late with the game on the line. It
Speaker 4: wasn't in the tournament. It wasn't even against a good team.
Speaker 4: And I'm not trying to in any way diminish it.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying that I don't think it's gonna be
Speaker 4: remembered for how insane it actually was. Like if you
Speaker 4: were there in person, I'm sure you're gonna remember it forever,
Speaker 4: if you were watching it at home or wherever, like
Speaker 4: it was the ultimate. This guy can't miss. I want
Speaker 4: him to keep shooting. And by the way, he never
Speaker 4: shot another one. He went six to six from three,
Speaker 4: so thirty seven points for Chucky to go along with
Speaker 4: four assists, four rebounds, just had two turnovers in the game.
Speaker 4: I mean, guys are mostly remembered by what they do
Speaker 4: in March, and I you know, that's just how it is.
Speaker 4: I'm not complaining, and I hope that Louisville can have
Speaker 4: a long March to where they can, you know, make
Speaker 4: it to the second weekend or maybe even further. But
Speaker 4: even if they don't, like, aren't we all in agreement
Speaker 4: that this guy is as good as anybody we've had.
Speaker 2: Here in a long time.
Speaker 4: Like Russ Smith graduated from Louisville in twenty fourteen. I believe,
Speaker 4: I believe that the day that he is the best.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think Chucky's the best player Louisville's had
Speaker 4: since Russ Smith. And I really don't know who would
Speaker 4: even be a close second. I mean, I think, you know,
Speaker 4: for what it's worth, Jordan war was an All was
Speaker 4: an All American player, Like he wasn't first team. I
Speaker 4: think he might have been the third team or maybe
Speaker 4: even maybe even Honorable Mention, which let's be honest, that's
Speaker 4: also a rare thing, like they're haven't been many of those.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're an All American, rather it be first, second, third,
Speaker 4: or honorable mention, that's that's a big honor. And I
Speaker 4: don't know about other programs, but I know Louisville they
Speaker 4: have It's not like they have those guys every year.
Speaker 2: And I don't know where Chuck's gonna end up.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is kind of funny, and I love
Speaker 4: that Pat Kelsey has still taking shots at whoever decided
Speaker 4: to leave him off the Bob Coosey watch list. They
Speaker 4: trimmed it to ten and they said Chucky wasn't one
Speaker 4: of the ten best point guards in the country, which
Speaker 4: you know, and by the way, he's had some games
Speaker 4: that are like, you know, not like this. I mean,
Speaker 4: thirty seven points in six May threes consecutively. I mean,
Speaker 4: that was an all timer for Chuck. But I mean
Speaker 4: since that snub I think he's had and really his
Speaker 4: injury as well, I think was a reminder to people,
Speaker 4: oh wow, this guy, or maybe not even a reminder,
Speaker 4: but maybe just a wake up call, because again I
Speaker 4: said it tongue in cheek, but I do believe there
Speaker 4: was some I was somewhat serious when I said that.
Speaker 4: I think Pat Kelsey, understandably so, is getting so much
Speaker 4: attention for this quick turnaround, the revival. I mean, he's
Speaker 4: clearly in the top candidate's list for Coach of the Year,
Speaker 4: every Coach of the Year ward you're gonna find. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if he's gonna win any but like he's
Speaker 4: getting a lot of praise and it's absolutely justified. But
Speaker 4: I believe at the time they trim that award list
Speaker 4: or that watch list, I should say that maybe people
Speaker 4: didn't realize that there's a really good point guard that's
Speaker 4: a big factor.
Speaker 2: And again, everybody.
Speaker 4: Involved deserves accolades and props for this whole thing. But
Speaker 4: it's like Pat Kelce was the main story as he
Speaker 4: should be, that people just weren't. It wasn't as if
Speaker 4: they were disrespecting Chucky. They just didn't realize how good
Speaker 4: of a year he's having and now, I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't know how you couldn't be aware of how good
Speaker 4: this guy is. I mean, Cooper Flag's gonna win ACC
Speaker 4: Player of the Year, He's probably gonna win National Player
Speaker 4: of the Year. But Chucky Hepburn's gonna be First Team
Speaker 4: All ACC. And I don't know. I mean, there's really
Speaker 4: good players out there. This has in fact been a
Speaker 4: really good year for college basketball. If you're somebody that
Speaker 4: just I mean, there's a lot of good teams, Like
Speaker 4: night in and night out, I mean, you've got a
Speaker 4: lot of teams that could beat anybody. I think you've
Speaker 4: got clearly an elite tier of teams.
Speaker 2: I don't think that that tier is that big.
Speaker 4: And then you got a lot of teams that, man
Speaker 4: like if these cut if you've got a round of
Speaker 4: thirty two, sweet sixteen, if those if those matchups are
Speaker 4: the kind of teams that, like right now, are currently
Speaker 4: in in in the in the rankings, rather it be
Speaker 4: AP or Ken Palm or net To, where like, those
Speaker 4: are the caliber teams that get there in the round
Speaker 4: of thirty two and the sweet sixteen, We're gonna get
Speaker 4: some really really good games. So again, college basketballs having
Speaker 4: a great season, but Chucky Hepburn. I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: know if the accolades are going to be there as
Speaker 4: far as the recognition at the end, all American status,
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: You can't control that.
Speaker 4: But I'm ready to say he's the best player Louisvell
Speaker 4: has had since since Russ and I don't really think
Speaker 4: it's close.
Speaker 2: And I just you know, the only downside is we
Speaker 2: only get him for one year.
Speaker 4: Because he's been he's been special, and really this group,
Speaker 4: I mean, they're gonna be remembered for a really, really
Speaker 4: long time. And I think Saturday, I mean, then we'll
Speaker 4: talk much more about it once we get our first
Speaker 4: break out of the way, and we'll let you guys
Speaker 4: be a part of the show and share your thoughts
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 2: But for me, you know, I think Saturday.
Speaker 4: You know, it came down to this team once again
Speaker 4: not really having a I mean, I wouldn't say that
Speaker 4: they didn't have a good night because if you look
Speaker 4: at the numbers, I mean they shot it fifty two
Speaker 4: percent from three. Now, again that was mostly because Chucky
Speaker 4: went six of six, but also got to the line
Speaker 4: thirty one times, made seventy one percent of those, I
Speaker 4: mean overall shot fifty percent from the floor, had two,
Speaker 4: you know, two big time scorers with Chucky and with
Speaker 4: thirty seven fat with twenty three. Outside of that, you
Speaker 4: really didn't get a whole lot from others when it
Speaker 4: comes to production. But you know, I mean, I'm not
Speaker 4: going to say they played bad. But to me, what
Speaker 4: I saw and this isn't this isn't like a criticism.
Speaker 4: It's just I mean, this isn't like I'm saying, you know,
Speaker 4: we shouldn't still feel really good about where we are.
Speaker 4: But I think we've now seen four straight games that
Speaker 4: they're just a little they're just a little sluggish. There's clearly,
Speaker 4: to me, some fatigue that is carrying over to different
Speaker 4: aspects of the game. A step slow on defense. I
Speaker 4: think sometimes fatigue leads to these guys making some questionable
Speaker 4: decisions that we didn't see early on. So I mean,
Speaker 4: there's nothing you can do about it, at least other
Speaker 4: than hope that they get rested and that kind of
Speaker 4: fades away. But these guys, a lot of them, have
Speaker 4: played a ton of minutes throughout the season, and I
Speaker 4: just hope that that's not why they just to me,
Speaker 4: look a little bit sluggish. I can't say that they
Speaker 4: look bad. They did against Virginia Tech at times, but again,
Speaker 4: even with that, you know, they've been challenged late in
Speaker 4: the last couple of games. And I think Pittsburgh is
Speaker 4: a good team as far as their personnel. I mean, again,
Speaker 4: there's nothing about their resume, nothing about anything as far
Speaker 4: as the numbers that'll you know, that'll convince you that
Speaker 4: they're a good team. But like, I believe they have
Speaker 4: the caliber talent on their team that you're going to
Speaker 4: see in the NAA Tournament. Like I think if they
Speaker 4: were coached better and they somehow won some of these
Speaker 4: close games they've been in, they might be a tournament
Speaker 4: team because I think they have the peak the personnel
Speaker 4: to do that. But again Louisville, I don't want to
Speaker 4: say that it just wasn't their night, because that was
Speaker 4: the case against Virginia Tech. I think Saturday they just
Speaker 4: you know, they weren't as they weren't as good defensively.
Speaker 4: But again maybe that's more so because pitt has some
Speaker 4: guys that can give you problems.
Speaker 2: But either way, this is a winning team. Their coach is.
Speaker 4: A winner, and I still don't think Saturday was ideal.
Speaker 4: It was clearly better than Virginia Tech. But they find
Speaker 4: ways to win. And they haven't played clean really in
Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks, but that has not led
Speaker 4: to them slipping up and losing a game, so all
Speaker 4: at all. I mean, I'm just trying to live in
Speaker 4: the moment as a fan, but I'm also going to
Speaker 4: be honest and tell you that I think the last
Speaker 4: four games, I still think this team is the same
Speaker 4: team we've watched all year as far as what they
Speaker 4: can accomplish. I just think they look clearly winded and
Speaker 4: and there's fatigue that's setting in, and that's that's normal.
Speaker 4: And I just, you know, I just don't I don't
Speaker 4: think there's anything to do about that. You just hope
Speaker 4: that it doesn't it doesn't, you know, come back to
Speaker 4: be And we'll never know, right Like, if they somehow
Speaker 4: slip up and lose in the round to sixty four,
Speaker 4: maybe in the round of the third two, maybe we'll
Speaker 4: say it's because they're tired.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess we'll have to see what
Speaker 2: it looks like.
Speaker 4: If, of course that ends up happening, who knows, Maybe
Speaker 4: they go on a deep run now when it comes
Speaker 4: to Kentucky, you know, as far as what happened on Saturday,
Speaker 4: I mean, they they just lost to a team that's
Speaker 4: a lot better than them. But what nobody else is
Speaker 4: talking about when it comes to the game just completely dying.
Speaker 4: As far as the broadcast, the truck, the ABC truck,
Speaker 4: I guess that you know, gets this thing on television
Speaker 4: across the planet completely lost power due to some kind
Speaker 4: of fire. So like the game wasn't on at all
Speaker 4: on television for like the last what like fourteen minutes
Speaker 4: or something. And there's one thing that like nobody seems
Speaker 4: to be talking about that I think was it was
Speaker 4: to me the most it was the most obvious reaction
Speaker 4: when I heard that they lost the game, and like
Speaker 4: it wouldn't be back on. So we'll talk about that
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Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: I know, when't the only one thinking.
Speaker 4: It after the fact, but as Chucky Hepburn's six point
Speaker 4: or I'm sorry, six consecutive three point makes went in.
Speaker 4: I mean, usually when that happens and he makes six
Speaker 4: in a row in that amount of time, I mean,
Speaker 4: you might bury a team, like you might.
Speaker 2: They might not, it might be over for him. And
Speaker 2: credit to Pitt they.
Speaker 4: Were responding, but I mean, you know, it just it
Speaker 4: was I know, how can at times be the glass
Speaker 4: half empty guy, or at least it appears that way.
Speaker 4: But usually if that kind of if something like that happens,
Speaker 4: you're usually you know, creating a lot of separation. And
Speaker 4: that just did happened, and they didn't worry me as
Speaker 4: if Louisville was going to lose. But I just felt like, man, like,
Speaker 4: that's the kind of thing that, you know, if everything
Speaker 4: else was kind of where it was.
Speaker 2: A few weeks ago.
Speaker 4: I guess really prior to like the the you know,
Speaker 4: the Miami game, I think it was, then you probably
Speaker 4: would have been in a position to where Pitt's down
Speaker 4: twenty and then they just don't have any fight left.
Speaker 4: But again credit to Pitt. I thought they, you know, one,
Speaker 4: they always fight. They're really competitive. I mean when I
Speaker 4: say fight, I mean like they're physical. I mean I
Speaker 4: think when you look at sort of there, I don't
Speaker 4: know what it is about Cable because I think even
Speaker 4: when its teams have been terrible, like maybe it's just
Speaker 4: when louisvill plays them, you typically get a good a
Speaker 4: good challenge from them as far as just you know,
Speaker 4: they're they're they're not going to back down. They're they're
Speaker 4: pretty intense, they're very physical. They just don't win enough
Speaker 4: and they don't win close games. And it just to
Speaker 4: me I felt like if it was going to work
Speaker 4: out with Cable at Pittsburgh, it already would have. But
Speaker 4: as I look at the numbers here, I mean, pitt
Speaker 4: was ten of thirty seven from three. They shot sixteen
Speaker 4: more threes than Louisville, and like Virginia Tech, I feel
Speaker 4: like a lot of them were wide open. So you know,
Speaker 4: I don't I'm happy Louisville won, Clearly, I still think
Speaker 4: the world of this team, and I've seen enough to
Speaker 4: know that if they do, you know, find their way
Speaker 4: to not only a win in the Let's say they
Speaker 4: get to the Duke game and lose a close one
Speaker 4: and then they make it to the Elite eight or something.
Speaker 4: I'm not predicting that right now, but I can't tell
Speaker 4: you that I'd be stunned because I've watched this team
Speaker 4: from start to finish, and I've seen when they really
Speaker 4: can be a team that just looks like they're going
Speaker 4: to be a tough bout for everybody, and I just
Speaker 4: if I'm not, if I'm honest, that's not the team
Speaker 4: that I've seen. The last four games, they've still won,
Speaker 4: and that's because that's what they do.
Speaker 2: They're a winning team. They find ways to win.
Speaker 4: They're really tough, they're mature, they don't get too high
Speaker 4: too low. They can have three consecutive plays where things
Speaker 4: fall apart right a turnover, you get dunked on, you
Speaker 4: turn it over again. Well, then they can come back
Speaker 4: the next play as if that never happened and regroup.
Speaker 4: And I think that's that's a real valuable thing that
Speaker 4: this team has. But I just again, I've got no
Speaker 4: problem in saying it like right now, and it's not
Speaker 4: and I've already had a couple of people mentioned that
Speaker 4: they think I am wanting Louisblle to win these games
Speaker 4: about twenty five or thirty in order to jump up
Speaker 4: in the metrics or whatever.
Speaker 2: And maybe that's why I kind of feel.
Speaker 4: Like they've they've they've looked so winded, and I'm telling
Speaker 4: you that's not at all what it's about. I mean,
Speaker 4: they won by eleven the other night, Like they weren't
Speaker 4: projected to win that game by eleven, they weren't favored
Speaker 4: to win that game by eleven, so they covered, so
Speaker 4: they exceeded when it comes to the number. And even
Speaker 4: against Notre Dames, same thing. Miami was the game in
Speaker 4: Miami and Florida State were games where they I don't
Speaker 4: think they ended up covering. But either way, like, it's
Speaker 4: not about that to me, it's about like, let me
Speaker 4: give an example.
Speaker 2: I'm watching.
Speaker 4: It was Dusty Baker, not the former baseball coach, but
Speaker 4: Wave three's Dusty Baker. He got the highlights of all
Speaker 4: six of Chucky's three pointers and put it together in
Speaker 4: a single clip. And I'm watching here and as Chuck
Speaker 4: he's running back on defense, like you can tell, like
Speaker 4: James Scott, and I'm not picking on him at all,
Speaker 4: but he's just like, he looks like he's about to
Speaker 4: fall over.
Speaker 2: And I don't think it's because he's out of shape.
Speaker 2: I just think these guys are winded.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: They've played a lot of basketball in that and that
Speaker 4: worries me a little bit.
Speaker 2: Let me and let me.
Speaker 4: I was thinking about it on the way in because
Speaker 4: I'm trying to balance it here. I don't want people
Speaker 4: to think that I'm like setting setting it up to
Speaker 4: where we need to just accept this team had a
Speaker 4: great run and they're probably running out of gas and
Speaker 4: we shouldn't expect a deep run. I have no clue
Speaker 4: what they're gonna do in the tournament, but I'm also
Speaker 4: not to the point where I'm just expecting them to
Speaker 4: kind of fall apart. I just also I'm not gonna,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm gonna enjoy it, but also be real.
Speaker 4: Then the last four games, I just think they've they've
Speaker 4: lost a little bit of their edge, and I assume
Speaker 4: it's because they're just a little bit worn down. And
Speaker 4: I don't think there's really any snap your fingers magic
Speaker 4: fixed to that. But earlier this year in January, when
Speaker 4: they started really I mean, when they started playing really well.
Speaker 4: And I know people can say what they want about
Speaker 4: the ACC and it not being great, and they're right,
Speaker 4: but Louisville once they got to North Carolina on January first,
Speaker 4: and really from from from January first to I guess
Speaker 4: about I mean, I was gonna say, even like when
Speaker 4: they lost to Georgia Tech, I didn't feel I mean,
Speaker 4: I kind of feel like that was the same team
Speaker 4: we watched all year. Georgia Tech just kind of got
Speaker 4: really hot at the right time three different times in
Speaker 4: that game. Louisville miss free throws, didn't execute late, and
Speaker 4: you know, it wasn't there night like that happens. Like,
Speaker 4: I don't feel like that was a game where, man,
Speaker 4: they just they laid an egg. I guess technically you
Speaker 4: can claim they did because they lost, But my point
Speaker 4: is this, they were beating they were beating teams like Carolina, Virginia, Clemson,
Speaker 4: Pitt Syracuse, SMU, Wake Forest and Look, I'm not saying
Speaker 4: that those are like big signature wins because honestly, of
Speaker 4: those teams I just mentioned, only one of them is
Speaker 4: going to be in the NAA tur.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: So. But what I what I what I kept reiterating
Speaker 4: throughout that run was that they're winning and sometimes dominating
Speaker 4: these teams. And yes, even though these teams aren't great,
Speaker 4: like Louisville would have an off night, from three, Louisville
Speaker 4: would shoot like fifty percent from the free throw line
Speaker 4: and still win by double digits. And it was so
Speaker 4: impressive to me because they were leaving points on the floor.
Speaker 2: There were certain.
Speaker 4: Aspects where they just kind of, you know, they didn't
Speaker 4: get it done. But man, they were playing so hard.
Speaker 4: They were so locked in defensively when it comes to
Speaker 4: attention to detail the scout like they were. They were
Speaker 4: just so sharp in every aspect as far as you know,
Speaker 4: things you can control and some people say, well you
Speaker 4: can control making your free throws. Yes, and no, I
Speaker 4: mean nobody's going up there trying to miss it.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: So like they were just so locked in and so
Speaker 4: in sync together that they could make up for having
Speaker 4: an off night, like I thought when they lost k
Speaker 4: pryor Korn Johnson, and then after that, you know, we
Speaker 4: saw them get blown out by Ole Miss.
Speaker 2: They really fell apart.
Speaker 4: Against Duke kind of after having a big lead, and
Speaker 4: when they had the lead, it took them getting really
Speaker 4: hot from three. I mean, I know I'm not the
Speaker 4: only one that pre January it kind of felt like, well,
Speaker 4: if Lois's gonna be a tournament caliber team, it's gonna
Speaker 4: be tough for them to beat, even the ACC teams
Speaker 4: that are mid if they're not shooting the three ball, well,
Speaker 4: if Chuck he's not really having a great night, or like,
Speaker 4: it just felt like there were gonna be certain things
Speaker 4: that you would have a tough time beating anybody if
Speaker 4: these certain things didn't go right. And then sure enough
Speaker 4: in January they were winning those games with bad nights
Speaker 4: at the free throw on. They were winning those games
Speaker 4: where they shot twenty something percent from three.
Speaker 2: And that's not what you like.
Speaker 4: You're not happy that those specific things happened, but man
Speaker 4: like you were able to show that, hey, you could
Speaker 4: have an off night, but if you play such good
Speaker 4: defense and you have such great attention to detail and
Speaker 4: you are really you know, you're out doing your opponent
Speaker 4: when it comes to enthusiasm and energy, like, those things
Speaker 4: can go a long way. So again, those things were
Speaker 4: there and they were rolling, and then the other night,
Speaker 4: you know they made six, Chuck, he made six straight threes,
Speaker 4: and they never really at that point had pulled away.
Speaker 4: And that's not like a crime, it's not like that's
Speaker 4: a terrible like sometimes that's just basketball, right, and other
Speaker 4: team's making shots too. But those things that I felt
Speaker 4: like were so consistent and so controllable to where, hey,
Speaker 4: maybe maybe it's not your night if your rain, or
Speaker 4: maybe you do misfree throws, or maybe you know, maybe
Speaker 4: Waterman's still playing close to twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: And he's zero for eight or something like that.
Speaker 4: Like you were able to overcome that because of all
Speaker 4: the little things that you were just so sharp with.
Speaker 4: And I think lately they've just lost a little bit
Speaker 4: of that. And I don't think it's because they're getting complacent.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's because they're feeling too good about themselves.
Speaker 4: I just believe it's because they're they're winded, and you know,
Speaker 4: that's part of it. I'm sure a lot of teams
Speaker 4: to the same way. So it could be nothing. It
Speaker 4: could be that, you know, maybe we see him play
Speaker 4: coming up here on Wednesday, and you know, maybe they
Speaker 4: look as good as we've seen them all year. Maybe
Speaker 4: the same thing happens on Saturday for the finale when
Speaker 4: they play Stanford. I mean, only time will tell. So again,
Speaker 4: I'm balancing it here when it comes to where they are,
Speaker 4: pinch me, like, is this real?
Speaker 2: Twenty three and.
Speaker 4: Six got a good chance of finishing the regular season.
Speaker 4: Twenty five and six, you're in the top fifteen in
Speaker 4: both polls.
Speaker 2: You're safely in the tournament.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's been phenomenal, and I hope that this
Speaker 4: team goes on a deep run. I'm not in any
Speaker 4: way acting like I think that they won't. I mean,
Speaker 4: the reality is none of us know. But I also,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't want to act like I'm not
Speaker 4: seeing this team just again here and there, Like just
Speaker 4: about every aspect I feel like, maybe other than three
Speaker 4: point shooting, because I mean again the other night they
Speaker 4: shot fifty.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 4: The numbers, I guess can be a little bit skewed
Speaker 4: because Chucky went six of six, but they were eleven
Speaker 4: of twenty one from three fifty two percent.
Speaker 2: That's pretty it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're you're shooting eleven of twenty one
Speaker 4: from three, I feel like you have you're gonna have
Speaker 4: a tough time losing many games, all right, real quick
Speaker 4: before we get to our next break. When it comes
Speaker 4: to the Kentucky game, I'm not really sure. I mean, like,
Speaker 4: you know, one, they just played a team that is
Speaker 4: a lot better than them because of the team they played,
Speaker 4: is a lot better than just about everybody.
Speaker 2: Now. With that said, though, Kentucky's Kentucky.
Speaker 4: You know, they don't expect to ever get you know,
Speaker 4: get worked like that on their home floor.
Speaker 2: But you know, if.
Speaker 4: There's one team that's probably gonna be able to do
Speaker 4: that to you, it's the team you played on Saturday.
Speaker 4: So I mean, it wasn't great by any means if
Speaker 4: you're Kentucky, but it probably didn't change.
Speaker 2: It didn't change.
Speaker 4: I don't think it changed anything for you as far
Speaker 4: as you're seating. Like in the net, Kentucky currently sits
Speaker 4: at number fifteen now. They were fifteen yesterday, which maybe,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe they were fifteen on Saturday before that game.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: But still they're in the top fifteen in the net
Speaker 4: with a nineteen to ten record, and it's because all
Speaker 4: their losses are quad one and let's see, no they
Speaker 4: have one quad two loss. I don't know which one
Speaker 4: that would be maybe it's the neutral site loss to
Speaker 4: Ohio State.
Speaker 2: But look, they got nine quad one wins.
Speaker 4: I mean that is more than everybody outside of Auburn, Tennessee, Alabama,
Speaker 4: in Michigan State. So their seed is safe. So the
Speaker 4: game is kind of like, you know, if you're Kentucky,
Speaker 4: I mean you even really work. I mean, you're not
Speaker 4: gonna see Auburn maybe until you get to I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe the final four if you get there, but you know,
Speaker 4: now you don't have Jackson Robbinson the rest of the way,
Speaker 4: which I guess isn't good news by any means, but.
Speaker 2: Like, at least now you know Lamont Butler's back.
Speaker 4: But also I think the reason why you just forget
Speaker 4: about the game is because a lot of people didn't
Speaker 4: see the end of it. I don't remember when it
Speaker 4: cut off. But one thing that like, I don't think
Speaker 4: I've heard anybody bring up and maybe I'm just not
Speaker 4: you know, I wasn't listening to any postgame shows or
Speaker 4: anything like that. I wasn't, you know, I wasn't mingling
Speaker 4: with Kentucky fans, you know, during or after the game.
Speaker 4: But imagine, so for those who missed it, I don't
Speaker 4: know how you did. But ABC, which by the way,
Speaker 4: that was the national broadcast ABC. They were there for
Speaker 4: the game, and there's always a big truck or multiple
Speaker 4: trucks actually that you know are part of the broadcast.
Speaker 4: I don't know enough about it from a technological standpoint
Speaker 4: as far as how it all works, but you know,
Speaker 4: those trucks are essentially what is sending this broadcast and
Speaker 4: really any broadcast out.
Speaker 2: To the world to see.
Speaker 4: And apparently there was a fire somewhere that caused that
Speaker 4: truck to lose power. That's apparently what happened, so they
Speaker 4: couldn't get power back. They didn't have any kind of
Speaker 4: a backup, so they just didn't have the game on television.
Speaker 4: So imagine if that was like a close game in
Speaker 4: Kentucky was winning.
Speaker 2: It was like a back and forth.
Speaker 4: Lead, a bunch of lead changes, and Kentucky wins with
Speaker 4: like a you know, a big, a big shot late
Speaker 4: to put it away, and none of the fans can
Speaker 4: see it. I mean, I can't really think of like
Speaker 4: what they would have done, but like the the outrage
Speaker 4: it would have been, it would be something we'd still
Speaker 4: be like, it would be such a big, big to
Speaker 4: do among the entire world that is big Blue Nation,
Speaker 4: and we know this is Louisville fans.
Speaker 2: They're they're they outnumber everybody.
Speaker 4: I'll probably never go to space, but if I ever
Speaker 4: do end up in space, I'll probably run into a
Speaker 4: UK fan that's wearing blue.
Speaker 2: Because they're everywhere. You can't escape them. There's billions of them.
Speaker 4: And if they didn't get to see Kentucky pull off
Speaker 4: that kind of a you know, a win in that situation,
Speaker 4: I mean again, I can't think of like what they
Speaker 4: would have done. I mean, hopefully they wouldn't have, you know,
Speaker 4: hurt anybody, but like it wouldn't shock me. But they
Speaker 4: what happened is like ABC's issue with the power actually
Speaker 4: put them out of their misery.
Speaker 2: They didn't have to see it because it was a blowout.
Speaker 2: They weren't in it.
Speaker 4: I mean, they kept occasionally getting it down to like,
Speaker 4: you know, fifteen or something, and there's no shame in
Speaker 4: losing the way they lost. But like I just can
Speaker 4: you imagine had it not been a blowout where Kentucky's
Speaker 4: losing and yet it's close and everybody's on the edge
Speaker 4: of their seat, it would have been a huge win
Speaker 4: for them obviously because Auburn is the best team in
Speaker 4: the country, and like, imagine if the game played out
Speaker 4: that way and nobody got to see it, like it
Speaker 4: would be all anybody around here would be talking about,
Speaker 4: and there would probably be more, you know, and by
Speaker 4: the way, maybe maybe there has been apologies about the issues,
Speaker 4: but from what it sounds like, I mean, it was
Speaker 4: either an it was either a UK issued or where
Speaker 4: they had some kind of a fire that was caused
Speaker 4: by I don't know what that led to that truck
Speaker 4: losing power, or maybe it was an act of God,
Speaker 4: and you know, sometimes those kind of things happened. But
Speaker 4: in a way, it kind of feels like Kentucky fans
Speaker 4: were given a blessing because even if you wanted it,
Speaker 4: like to me, if my team's getting blown out, I
Speaker 4: I know some people can I can't just turn it off,
Speaker 4: Like I can't not watch my team, especially if like
Speaker 4: I'm into it now, if it's like a Louisville Kenny
Speaker 4: Paine team, that's different. But like if Louisville was to
Speaker 4: play on Saturday and somehow like they're losing and it
Speaker 4: looks bad, like I can't not watch it, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: know what to do if I wasn't watching it, But
Speaker 4: Kentucky fans had no choice if they weren't there because
Speaker 4: it wasn't available to watch it. In a way, it
Speaker 4: probably made that a little bit better for you to
Speaker 4: deal with. So again I keep saying, imagine what if
Speaker 4: it was a close game and none of their fans
Speaker 4: got to see them potentially pull off like a big
Speaker 4: time easily be the biggest win of Pope's tenure thus far.
Speaker 4: And again I keep saying.
Speaker 2: What if.
Speaker 4: I don't know what, I don't know what would have happened,
Speaker 4: but I just know it wouldn't have been something people
Speaker 4: just accepted kind of the way they did this time around.
Speaker 4: Like Allstin, I know you were busy on Saturday doing
Speaker 4: your thing, but like when Kentucky fans can't watch their game,
Speaker 4: you would think that they're really upset. But like at
Speaker 4: that point, it was late, it was mid second half ish,
Speaker 4: I guess, and like they just you know, like they
Speaker 4: probably were like, Okay, well, I guess this is probably
Speaker 4: good because we probably don't we don't we actually don't
Speaker 4: want to watch it. Yeah, but they ended up getting
Speaker 4: you know, And again, I think most teams that play
Speaker 4: Auburn right now, are probably gonna end up losing, and
Speaker 4: it won't be close because I think Auburn's that good.
Speaker 4: But one thing I will say, though, is that for Kentucky,
Speaker 4: you know, Jeni Broom didn't have a field goal in
Speaker 4: the first half, and in fact, I mean, he didn't
Speaker 4: really do much to you, and yet it didn't really matter.
Speaker 4: I think one that speaks to how good Auburn is overall.
Speaker 4: But also, you know, I think you know, for Kentucky,
Speaker 4: they're just you didn't you kind of really don't know
Speaker 4: what you're gonna get with them.
Speaker 2: I mean, they've they've had performances where you feel.
Speaker 4: Like, uh oh, maybe their best basketball was a couple
Speaker 4: of months ago. But then they'll come out and win
Speaker 4: a game you didn't expect him to win. All right,
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Speaker 4: seven ninety this tech says Nick, Well, I don't agree
Speaker 4: with you at all when it comes to this team
Speaker 4: looking winded. I do think there's value in having a
Speaker 4: couple of close games late just to see what they
Speaker 4: do when they're not blowing somebody out.
Speaker 2: Totally agree, Totally agree. I mean, you don't mean if
Speaker 2: you have the option to.
Speaker 4: Win without you know, fans nearly having a heart attack,
Speaker 4: when without you having to really kind of grind it
Speaker 4: out and you win because you're just better and you've
Speaker 4: created so much separation to where it really isn't close
Speaker 4: down the stretch. I mean, that's a good thing, but
Speaker 4: that's that's a tough ask, right. I Mean, Pittsburgh's got
Speaker 4: players too, right, Like teams aren't just going to roll over,
Speaker 4: so sometimes you end you.
Speaker 2: End up having to kind of of, you know, grind
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 4: And you had to do it more so on the
Speaker 4: road in Blacksburg last week than you did on Saturday
Speaker 4: at home against Pitt. But still you had to make
Speaker 4: some winning plays late, you had to make some free throws, and.
Speaker 2: Getting that repetition is good. I mean, I guess if.
Speaker 4: Louill would have rolled through, which to be honest, again,
Speaker 4: it's silly to say the fact that they haven't blown
Speaker 4: everybody out that like people should be worried or like
Speaker 4: not happy. I think fans are understandably over the moon
Speaker 4: with how good this team really, how good this season
Speaker 4: has been so far. But if they would have beat
Speaker 4: Virginia Tech by twenty, beat Pitt by you know, close
Speaker 4: to that, that really wouldn't have been a shocker, and
Speaker 4: we you know, we'd be feeling great, but we wouldn't
Speaker 4: have had that experience to see this team, you know
Speaker 4: what they I mean, it's not us, we're fans, We
Speaker 4: have no impact on the game, but you know, these
Speaker 4: guys were in some late crunch time situations to where
Speaker 4: you know, they had they had to execute. And I
Speaker 4: really think, you know, against Pitt, you were you know,
Speaker 4: you never really mean, you never really like let the
Speaker 4: It wasn't as if I never felt like Louisville was
Speaker 4: gonna lose that game. I just you know, and Honestly,
Speaker 4: Chucky's six threes. It's nice to have a guy that
Speaker 4: can do that. It's not something you can ever just
Speaker 4: expect to happen because it'll probably never happen again. But
Speaker 4: I think that that messed with my psyche as a
Speaker 4: fan because I'm thinking, how can he how can he
Speaker 4: score eighteen consecutive points on his own and Louisville not
Speaker 4: have a bigger cushion. But that's probably just you know,
Speaker 4: my mind went there because I saw something you typically
Speaker 4: don't see, like a guy scoring eighteen straight points on
Speaker 4: six straight threes.
Speaker 2: So therefore I just was thinking, well, we should be
Speaker 2: up thirty.
Speaker 4: But in the end, Louisll led by six at half,
Speaker 4: won the second half by five. The lead change did
Speaker 4: happen six times, but you know, Louisville led for thirty
Speaker 4: two and a half minutes.
Speaker 2: Of that game. But it was the Virginia Tech game.
Speaker 4: I feel like that really was a test as far
Speaker 4: as Okay, everybody on the floor for Louisville knows tonight's
Speaker 4: not been their night, but they've not let it impact
Speaker 4: them to where they're still locked in making big plays defensively,
Speaker 4: forcing turnovers. I mean, some big threes made by by
Speaker 4: Fat and a big bucket late by James Scott.
Speaker 2: So again, you don't want to be in that situation,
Speaker 2: but hey, there's.
Speaker 4: Value if you end up there and you do get
Speaker 4: some real reps as far as closing out of game late,
Speaker 4: where the last few possessions, Man, that's going to decide
Speaker 4: who wins and who loses. It's fun blowing teams out.
Speaker 4: That was a lot of fun, right seeing this Louisville
Speaker 4: team just beat the brakes off some teams in the ACC.
Speaker 4: But with that, you know, you didn't really get chances
Speaker 4: to kind of see what this team can do late,
Speaker 4: And yeah, I guess that's a good way to kind
Speaker 4: of spin it back around to where, Yeah, I still
Speaker 4: think this team looks a little bit winded. You know,
Speaker 4: the defense just hasn't been as.
Speaker 2: Sharp.
Speaker 4: But maybe that's not just because they're a little bit winded.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's because, you know, Pittsburgh's got some good players too,
Speaker 4: which I.
Speaker 2: Believe that I said it last week.
Speaker 4: I tried not to be too repetitive, but like, Pittsburgh
Speaker 4: shouldn't be in the position they're in. They have players
Speaker 4: that I think, you know, again, there's no way to
Speaker 4: say this without it sounding like I'm just blaming it
Speaker 4: all on Cable.
Speaker 2: I mean, he is the head coach. He's responsible.
Speaker 4: But Pitt has players to where they should be a
Speaker 4: tournament team, and they're not the only act.
Speaker 2: They're not the only a SEC team I would say
Speaker 2: that about though, to be honest with you.
Speaker 4: All right, quick break, two more hours left and a
Speaker 4: lot more to get into, so make sure you guys
Speaker 4: stick with us. It's a Monday recap in the weekend
Speaker 4: as we're here March, folks, just one week left in
Speaker 4: the regular season. In fact, we have some conference tournaments
Speaker 4: going on this week from the mid major leagues, which
Speaker 4: is always exciting.
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